Domain Shared Vision of Learning An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders. Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) claims to have a vision and mission for the school, but keeps it private school vision and mission are unrelated to the district vision and mission disregards the need to use the school s vision and mission to guide goals, plans and actions assumes that the school s improvement is either an event or the responsibility of a single individual identifies the school s vision and mission, and makes them public school vision and mission are created in isolation of the district s vision and mission and aligned as an afterthought refers to the school vision and mission as a document unconnected to programs, policies or practices provides selected staff with opportunities to discuss school improvement efforts collaborates with key stakeholders in the school to develop and implement a shared vision and mission for learning school vision and mission aligns with the vision and mission of the district explicitly links the school s vision and mission to programs and policies has a process and structure in place for organizational improvement and uses it to assess the school Highly engages stakeholders representing all roles and perspectives in the school in the development, monitoring and refinement of a shared vision and mission for learning school vision and mission intentionally align with the vision and mission of the district and contribute to the improvement of learning district wide uses the school s vision and mission as a compass to inform reflective practice, goal-setting, and decisionmaking uses and regularly evaluates strategic processes and structures to promote the school s continuous and sustainable improvement In the electronic version, Culture is hyperlinked to an input PowerPoint. In the electronic version, shared vision is hyperlinked to an annotated shared visioning activity. 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Domain School Culture and Instructional Program An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth. Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) acknowledges the need for communication and collaboration provides selected individuals with basic information about various collaborative teaching, learning and workrelated concepts or practices to several individuals creates a learning environment that relies on teacher-controlled classroom activities, rote learning, student compliance and learning opportunities that are disconnected from students experiences, needs or cultures considers proposals for collaborative structures and projects encourages selected staff to expand their understanding of particular practices that support collaboration such as collaborative planning, co-facilitation or integrated curriculum design creates a learning environment in which students are passive recipients in learning opportunities that are only peripherally connected to their experiences or cultures supports various teaming opportunities, common planning and inquiry time, and visitations within the organization to increase learning and improve practice develops a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations by encouraging staff to work together on key projects (e.g., induction processes, program design, integrated curriculum, or other individual or organizational projects) creates a personalized and motivating learning environment for students in which they are involved in meaningful and relevant learning opportunities that they recognize as connected to their experiences, needs and cultures Highly establishes different ways of accessing staff expertise and work by promoting activities such as lab sites, peer coaching, mentoring, collegial inquiry, etc. as an embedded part of practice nurtures and sustains a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations by providing structured opportunities for cross role groups to design and implement innovative approaches to improving learning, work and practice engages stakeholders (e.g., students, staff, parents) in developing and sustaining a learning environment that actively involves students in meaningful, relevant learning that is clearly connected to their experiences, culture and futures, and require them to construct meaning of concepts or processes in deductive or inductive ways In the electronic version, meaningful will hyperlink to an activity on engagement and meaningfulness 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Domain (cont.) Instructional Program (design and delivery of high quality curriculum that produces clear evidence of learning) promotes a curricular program that provides students with limited, surface or cursory exposure to a topic, concept or skill set and establishes or defines meaning for students, focusing on the recall of isolated concepts, skills and/or facts establishes a curricular program focused primarily on recall, comprehension and factual knowledge acquisition that enables students to develop a basic understanding of a topic and/or process and includes few, if any, opportunities for them to construct meaning creates a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program that address all levels of thinking, enables students to develop knowledge and skills related to a concept, problem, or issue, and supports their construction of meaning during the most important lessons and tasks Highly engages students and teachers in designing and revising a learner-centered curricular program that integrates basic and higher levels of thinking throughout and provides opportunities for students to emulate professionals and construct meaning as they engage in a thorough exploration of a concept, problem, issue, or question maintains a hands off approach to instruction provides mixed messages related to expectations for instructional methodology and own understanding of best practices supervises instruction and makes explicit the expectation that teachers remain current in researchbased, best practices and incorporate them into their own work supervises instruction on an ongoing basis, and engages in collegial opportunities for learning, action research and/or inquiry related to best practices in teaching and learning initiates actions that interrupt instructional time and distract from learning (e.g., meetings, announcements, unplanned assemblies, phone calls to teachers in classrooms, etc.) allows actions that disrupt instructional time and distract from learning (e.g. meetings, announcements, unplanned assemblies, phone calls to teachers in classrooms, etc.) maximizes time spent on quality instruction by protecting it from interruptions and inefficient scheduling, minimizing disruption to instructional time involves diverse stakeholders in uncovering issues that challenge time spent on quality instruction and in innovative approaches to dealing with them 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Domain (cont.) Capacity Building (developing potential and tapping existing internal expertise to promote learning and improve practice) assumes titled leaders are able to handle administrative responsibilities and teachers to be able to instruct students invests in activities that promote the development of a select group of leaders develops the instructional and leadership capacity of staff Highly develops and taps the instructional and leadership capacity of all stakeholders in the school organization to assume a variety of formal and informal leadership roles in the school is unaware of effective and appropriate technologies available provides the necessary hardware and software, and establishes the expectation that teachers will integrate technology into student learning experiences promotes the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning and ensures that necessary resources are available engages varied perspectives in determining how to best integrate the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies into teaching, learning and the daily workings of the school organization Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) uses accountability to justify a system that links student achievement with accolades and blame assessment and accountability systems, though in place, are misaligned so that it is difficult to see how data from one explicitly relates to or informs the other develops assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress, uncover patterns and trends, and provide a way to contextualize current student strengths and needs inside a history that connects changes in teaching and learning to student achievement. facilitates regular use of easily accessible assessment and accountability systems that enable students, teachers, and parents to monitor student progress, teacher learning, uncover patterns and trends, and provides a way to contextualize student achievement, both inside history and projected into the future. In the electronic version, Sustainability will hyperlink to a PowerPoint providing input on Sustainability. 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Domain (cont.) Strategic Planning Process: monitoring/inquiry (the implementation and stewardship of goals, decisions and actions) judges the merit of the instructional program based on what is used by others evaluates the impact of the instructional program based on results of standardized assessments gathers input from staff and surveys students as well as formal assessment data as part of process to monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program Highly provides time and the expectation for students and staff to participate in multiple cycles of field testing, feedback and revision of the instructional program in order to monitor and evaluate its impact and make necessary refinements to support continuous improvement 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 5
Domain Safe, Efficient, Learning Environment An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. Capacity Building (developing potential and tapping existing internal expertise to promote learning and improve practice) Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) obtains and uses human, fiscal and technological resources based on available funds or last year s budget instead of need considers self as the sole leader of the organization while allocating limited responsibilities for unwanted tasks to others speaks to the importance of school safety, but is inconsistent in creating and implementing specific plans to ensure it obtains human, fiscal and technological resources and allocates them without an apparent plan shares leadership by providing others with limited responsibilities for tasks and functions but no decision making ability establishes rules and related consequences designed to keep students safe, but relies on inconsistent procedures obtains, allocates, aligns, and efficiently utilizes human, fiscal, and technological resources develops the capacity for distributed leadership by providing interested individuals with opportunities and support for to assuming leadership responsibilities and roles promotes and protects the welfare and safety of students and staff Highly considers vision and solicits input from various stakeholders in determining, obtaining, allocating and utilizing necessary human, fiscal and technological resources, aligning them with present and future needs embeds distributed leadership into all levels of the organization by enabling administrative, teacher, student and parent leaders to assume leadership roles and cocreates a process by which today s leaders identify, support and promote the leaders of tomorrow engages multiple, diverse groups of stakeholders in defining, promoting and protecting the welfare and safety of students and staff, within and beyond school walls 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 6
Domain (cont.) Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) avoids engaging with management or operations systems monitors and evaluates the management and operational systems monitors, evaluates and revises management and operational systems Highly establishes processes for the ongoing evaluation, monitoring and revision of management and operational systems, ensuring their continuous, sustainable improvement Instructional Program (design and delivery of high quality curriculum that produces clear evidence of learning) allocates time as required to comply with regulations and mandates schedules time outside of the typical school day for teachers to support instruction and learning ensures teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning engages groups of students and teachers in determining how to best allocate and manage time to support ongoing and sustainable improvements in quality instructional practices and student learning 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 7
Domain - Community An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources. Strategic Planning Process: Inquiry (gather and analyze data to monitor effects of actions and decisions on goal attainment and enable mid-course adjustments as needed to better enable success) makes decisions about whether or not to change the educational environment based on own impressions and beliefs collects and analyzes data and information pertinent to the educational environment collects and analyzes data and information pertinent to the educational environment, and uses it to make related improvements Highly engages in ongoing collection and analysis of data on the educational environment and information from diverse stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) considers the community as separate from the school provides isolated opportunities for including the community in a school activity or for engaging students in community outreach or service projects promotes understanding, appreciation, and use of the community s diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources through diverse activities engages students, educators, parents, and community partners in employing a range of mechanisms and technology to identify and tap the community s diverse cultural, social and intellectual resources, promote their widespread appreciation, and connect them to desired improvements in teaching and learning Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) identifies lack of family and caregiver involvement as a key explanation for lack of achievement takes actions intended to increase family and caregiver support for the school builds and sustains positive relationships with families and caregivers builds sustainable, positive relationships with families and caregivers and enables them to take on significant roles in ongoing improvement efforts 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 8
Domain 5 Integrity, Fairness, Ethics An education leader promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner. Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) associates accountability with threats and blame for students academic and social difficulties focuses on accountability for academic and social success of students whose test results threaten the school s standing ensures a system of accountability for every student s academic and social success Highly enables an approach to accountability that upholds high ethical standards and inspires stakeholders (educators, parents, students and community partners) to own and be responsible for every student s academic and social success makes decisions based on self-interest and is caught off guard by consequences of decisions and responds by denying, becoming defensive or ignoring them. makes decisions and takes actions without considering consequences, dealing with them if and when they occur considers and evaluates the potential moral and legal consequences of decision-making engages the diverse perspectives of various stakeholders in using multiple sources of data to explore potential intended and unintended moral, legal and ethical consequences of decisions and actions that support the greater good blames mandates for decisions or actions that challenge the integrity or ethics of the school or its various stakeholders assumes responsibility for decisions and actions related to mandates assumes responsibility for thoughtfully considering and upholding mandates so that the school can successfully tread the line between compliance and moral and ethical responsibility promotes resiliency by involving stakeholders in considering how to negotiate and uphold mandates in ways that preserve the integrity of the school s learning and work and align with its ethical and moral beliefs 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 9
Domain 5 (cont.) Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) mourns the lack of the selfawareness, reflective practice transparency and ethical behavior in others proclaims the importance of self-awareness, reflective practice transparency and ethical behavior and seeks it in others models principles of selfawareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior Highly engages stakeholders in identifying and describing exemplars of self and cultural awareness, reflective practice, transparency and ethical behavior from within and outside the school, and determining how to replicate them pays lip service to values related to democracy, equity and diversity holds others accountable for upholding the values of democracy, equity and diversity safeguards the values of democracy, equity, and diversity provides opportunities for all stakeholder groups to define, embrace and embody the values of democracy, equity, and diversity implements strategies that group and label students with specific needs, isolating them from the mainstream asserts that individual student needs should inform all aspects of schooling, but has difficulty putting these beliefs into action promotes social justice and ensures that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling creates processes that embed social justice into the fabric of the school, seamlessly integrating the needs of individuals with improvement initiatives, actions and decisions 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 0
Domain 6 Political, Social, Economic, Legal and Cultural Context An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Sustainability (a focus on continuance and meaning beyond the present moment, contextualizing today s successes and improvements as the legacy of the future) appears unaware of decisions affecting student learning made outside of own school or district reacts to district, state and national decisions affecting student learning acts to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning, within and beyond their own school and district Highly engages the entire school community and all of its stakeholders in collaborating to make proactive and positive change in local, district, state and national decisions affecting the improvement of teaching and learning Culture (attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and beliefs that characterize the school environment and are shared by its stakeholders) waits to be told how to respond to emerging trends or initiatives advocates for self and own interests continues to rely on the same leadership strategies, in the face of emerging trends and initiatives, or copies others who they view as leaders in the field advocates for selected causes assesses, analyzes, and anticipates emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies advocates for children, families, and caregivers draws upon the perspectives, expertise and leadership of various stakeholders in responding proactively to emerging challenges to the shared vision, ensuring the resilience of the school, its growth, learning and improvements guided by the school vision, enables self, children, families and caregivers to successfully and appropriately advocate for themselves and one another 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Other: Goal Setting and Attainment Uncovering Goals Align Define does goal setting in order to be in compliance with mandates or regulations completes goal setting activities to satisfy external expectations and assumptions about the connection between principal practice and student learning engages in the goal setting process as part of own professional improvement as related to improving student learning Highly embraces the goal setting process as part of ongoing work to improve learning by decreasing the distance between the school s current reality and the vision operates from own opinion and perceptions without attending to vision and data considers data gathered about teacher practice, academic results and/or school learning environment in isolation of the school and district vision works with the superintendent to consider the school and district vision and student learning needs, as well as information gathered about teacher practice, academic results and/or the school learning environment engages a cross role group, including the superintendent, teachers and other administrators, to triangulate the school and district vision with data depicting the current reality of student learning, teacher practice, academic results and/or the school learning environment extracts goals from own interests establishes goals that focus on improving teacher practice, and academic results and/or school learning environment creates goals that connect changes in principal practice to the improvement of teacher practice, academic results, and/or school learning environment in order to improve student learning generates goals that maximize on the principal s role in improving teacher practice, academic results, and/or school learning environment in the service of improving learning goals are isolated action steps, unaligned to a goal that can actually be worked toward goals are broad, general, aspirational statements that are too big to be assessed goals are stated in ways that allow progress toward them to be assessed goals are expressed in statements that are both actionable and measurable 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Strategic Planning 5 Prioritize Strategize considers goals in no special order changes commitment to goals as new ones emerge lists generic strategies that could apply to a variety of goals states the benefits of attaining the goal(s) Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric prioritizes goals based on own interests relies on own perspective to assert the importance and alignment of identified goals lists strategies that will be used to accomplish goals identified describes, in general terms, what successful goal attainment will look like and accomplish prioritizes goals by considering what can be gained by pursuing each uses superintendent s perspective to test own assumptions about goals to see if they are truly connected to the school/district vision and needs articulates strategies supporting actions, and reasons for selecting them identifies anticipated specific measures of success for each goal Goal Setting and Attainment (cont.) Highly prioritizes goals by considering the potential benefits and unintended consequences of pursuing certain goals vis-a-vis others uses the perspectives of others to test own assumptions about the goals articulated and to see if they are truly connected to the school/district vision and needs articulates strategies supporting actions and also for overcoming obstacles to the plan, with rationale for selecting them that includes anticipated results, implementation intentions 6 related to each, and evidence of strategy s impact. describes the evidence that, when collected and annotated, will support that attending to these goals actually decreases the distance between current reality and the vision 5 In this electronic version, Strategic Planning will hyperlink to a scaffolded, strategic planning worksheet. 6 In the electronic version, implementation intentions will be a hyperlinked definition with examples. 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Taking Action Mobilize Monitor Refine refers in general to working toward goals, but is unable to articulate related steps or strategies Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric identifies a series of individual actions for each goal without specifying whether the goals are long or short term creates an action plan that delineates steps and strategies for all goals, regardless of whether they are short or long term Goal Setting and Attainment (cont.) Highly designs an action plan that clearly differentiates between short and long term goals and their associated steps and strategies speaks about taking actions, but has trouble committing and getting started implements the action plan quietly and privately implements the action plan publically, and invites others to use it as a model for goal setting that they can do as well shares and implements the action plan publically, and uses it as an opportunity to build a culture of inquiry by inspiring others to engage in their own goal setting to improve learning changes goals to better match what is currently happening or uses what is happening to rationalize giving up adjusts goals and actions based on instinct and selfperceptions monitors and refines goals and/or action steps, based on formative assessment of evidence collected seeks multiple, diverse perspectives to review evidence collected and contribute to own questions about process, actions, strategies and progress, to support revisions to the action plan 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change
Evaluating Attainment Document o Insights o Accomplishments o New questions o Implications for moving forward Next steps documentation is a beginning and end event and focuses on restating actions taken and noting obstacles to goal achievement categorically claims goal attainment or uses failure to meet goals set as evidence that the goal setting process does not work dismisses the possibility of using goals to define next steps Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric sporadically documents thinking related to key moments, obstacles or achievements evaluates goals and goal attainment based on own impressions of what success should have looked like and what was actually achieved considers new goals based on success in achieving current goals, adjusting them to match perceived ability of the school to actually improve periodically documents own thinking and reactions to the progress made obstacles encountered, and insights or questions that arise evaluates goals and goal attainment by assessing evidence of success, establishing the degree to which the goal has been achieved, and determining next steps towards attaining the school vision determines next steps and future actions to improve student learning, teacher practice, academic results and/or the school learning environment in light how successful the recent work was in making improvements Goal Setting and Attainment (cont.) Highly throughout the implementation of the action plan, systematically documents and reflects upon emerging insights, questions, perceived accomplishments, obstacles encountered, and unintended consequences taps the perspectives of those who supported the initial data analysis to help evaluate goal attainment and related impact on learning by assessing evidence of success, establishing the degree to which the goal has been achieved, and determining next steps in attaining the school vision and improving learning engages stakeholders 7 in planning, future goals, actions and next steps to improve student learning, teacher practice, academic results and/or the school learning environment based on how much closer the school and district are to the vision 7 In the electronic version, stakeholders would be a hyperlink to a definition and stakeholder identification activity. 0 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd and Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change 5